Institute for Energy Research Director of Regulatory and State Affairs Daniel Simmons on how Colorado Democrats’ coalition is fracturing over fracking. Photo credit: Getty Images.

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... I ... I ... the looking Chow I'm Mary the soul ... the the the Air China ticket Lipper and the chancel with Democrats this week ... to avoid having its added franking measures on the ballot in November ... Institute for Energy Research director of regulatory in state affairs ... Daniel Symons joins me now from Washington and Daniel ... I can't read Democratic Party fighting in Colorado for fracking ... but his left fracturing or fracking ... in this case definitely there are the there the more moderate members which is the more moderate Democrats this is going to take the Looper and then you have ... represented polis that is very hard Latham polis was working ... very hard spend a lot of money to to get a piece of anti hydrofracturing ... I'd get petitions on the orb to be able to put them on the ballot ... but he Hooper saw this is a potential aid to Republicans because the hydraulic fracturing is paid a lot of new jobs in Colorado ... and so she wanted to head off I'd you know this this of the past forgot to foreign treaty good issue for Republican victory with a lot of jobs I do think that there's a demonstration effect going on here where Colorado residents are looking at North Dakota they're looking at Texas and they're saying ... hey we want those jobs too ... without a doubt that North ... unemployment in North Dakota is less than three percent ... on that you have over a third of all incoming North Dakota is now from oil and gas in Colorado itself ... color battles like a secret energy producing state Colorado's the six largest natural gas producer ... the ninth largest oil producer and oil production is up by is more than doubled in the past ... I'm in the past five years as a result ... you know it the global oil a natural gas industry want to be able to continue to use hydrofracturing because they're starting to show what kind of output at a potent ... economic engine that it can be even in places like Colorado ... anyways it is easy to get to stop battleground in Colorado as it is in SE Texas ... well ... it is not a meager their place in Colorado where you have all the little that easy to produce but there is a ton of oil that is why the oil in the North Dakota that is and I've been is and oil shale ... that requires a lot more drilling that a client were requires a lot more effort it requires hydraulic fracturing ... and that because of that ... it you need the right regulations that are I'd you know in place to be able to live to access when when those regulations are placing people wanna spend the money to do it you have the right resources which they do in Colorado you to produce a lot of oil but what that requires is still being able to use hydraulic fracture now and and I guess a lot of it in Colorado it's near city's makes Apotheke's a little tougher ... I is different in character ... and Daniel sentence thank you so much for joining us thank you ...